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I am an Associate Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Government, Uppsala University. My research focuses on the intersection of democratic theory with constitutional and empirical politics. Trained as a historian of political thought, I am mainly interested in contemporary ideas about democracy (19th c. onwards), such as political representation, equal participation, voting rights, and populism. My most read publications are specifically on responses to populism and extremism, militant democracy, compulsory voting, sortition, ostracism and Hermann Heller.
In 2020-21, I was Associate Professor at Lund University, and in 2017-20 I taught part-time at the Hellenic Open University. In addition, I have held a Seeger Fellowship at Princeton University (2019), a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship at Uppsala University (2014-16), and an Erik Allard Fellowship at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (2012). In 2018, I was offered a Fullbright-Schuman Award, and was also appointed visiting Fellow at the 'Engaging Vulnerability' Program. I earned my PhD from the Centre of Excellence in Political Thought at the University of Jyväskylä in 2011, and in 2018, I was awarded a qualification as Docent from Uppsala University.
In 2015, I published my first monograph combining political thought and voting ethics, The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe: Democracy's Duty? (Routledge). The book examines the contemporary discourse on mandatory voting in light of relevant debates in 19th and 20th century France, and argues that high voter turnout has been historically seen, among other, as an institutional barrier to extremist parties. My upcoming book is a study of contemporary democratic theory and extremism. Titled Theories of Democratic Self-Defence, it focuses on the norms of exclusion, toleration and integration that drive the primary approaches to dealing with far-right parties. The book is under contract with Oxford University Press and has been awarded the York Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award in 2022.
I have published in political science, political theory, constitutional law and history of ideas journals, namely: International Political Science Review, Political Studies, Comparative European Politics, Australian Journal of Political Science, Acta Politica, Constellations, Redescriptions, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, European Constitutional Law Review, History of European Ideas, History of Political Thought.
Volumes that I co-edited include Militant Democracy and its Critics (with Alexander Kirshner, 2019), Equal Representation (with Lisa Hill, 2016) and Rhetoric, Politics and Conceptual Change (with Kari Palonen, 2011).
Since 2016, I am in the editorial team of Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory and steering committee member of the ECPR Standing Group on Political Concepts. I regularly act as an external expert for the European Commission and other funding agencies.
I have taught courses in political theory and democratic politics both at undergraduate and postgraduate level in Lund, Uppsala and Jyväskylä, and currently supervise two PhD students. Places that I have visited as a lecturer include Adelaide, Rome, Helsinki, Dublin, Berlin and Athens.
In spring 2024, I was a Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, hosted by Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser.
Here you can find my personal profile at Uppsala University and below a detailed CV.
Thank you for visiting my page!
In 2020-21, I was Associate Professor at Lund University, and in 2017-20 I taught part-time at the Hellenic Open University. In addition, I have held a Seeger Fellowship at Princeton University (2019), a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship at Uppsala University (2014-16), and an Erik Allard Fellowship at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (2012). In 2018, I was offered a Fullbright-Schuman Award, and was also appointed visiting Fellow at the 'Engaging Vulnerability' Program. I earned my PhD from the Centre of Excellence in Political Thought at the University of Jyväskylä in 2011, and in 2018, I was awarded a qualification as Docent from Uppsala University.
In 2015, I published my first monograph combining political thought and voting ethics, The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe: Democracy's Duty? (Routledge). The book examines the contemporary discourse on mandatory voting in light of relevant debates in 19th and 20th century France, and argues that high voter turnout has been historically seen, among other, as an institutional barrier to extremist parties. My upcoming book is a study of contemporary democratic theory and extremism. Titled Theories of Democratic Self-Defence, it focuses on the norms of exclusion, toleration and integration that drive the primary approaches to dealing with far-right parties. The book is under contract with Oxford University Press and has been awarded the York Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award in 2022.
I have published in political science, political theory, constitutional law and history of ideas journals, namely: International Political Science Review, Political Studies, Comparative European Politics, Australian Journal of Political Science, Acta Politica, Constellations, Redescriptions, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, European Constitutional Law Review, History of European Ideas, History of Political Thought.
Volumes that I co-edited include Militant Democracy and its Critics (with Alexander Kirshner, 2019), Equal Representation (with Lisa Hill, 2016) and Rhetoric, Politics and Conceptual Change (with Kari Palonen, 2011).
Since 2016, I am in the editorial team of Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory and steering committee member of the ECPR Standing Group on Political Concepts. I regularly act as an external expert for the European Commission and other funding agencies.
I have taught courses in political theory and democratic politics both at undergraduate and postgraduate level in Lund, Uppsala and Jyväskylä, and currently supervise two PhD students. Places that I have visited as a lecturer include Adelaide, Rome, Helsinki, Dublin, Berlin and Athens.
In spring 2024, I was a Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, hosted by Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser.
Here you can find my personal profile at Uppsala University and below a detailed CV.
Thank you for visiting my page!
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